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Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news service committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. And we report on how the health care system — hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurers, governments, consumers — works.

In addition to this website, our stories are published by news organizations throughout the country. Our site also features daily summaries of major health care news.

KHN is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Menlo Park, Calif., that is dedicated to filling the need for trusted information on national health issues. Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman wrote this message about KHN when we launched in 2009.

Neither KHN nor the Kaiser Family Foundation is affiliated with the health insurance company Kaiser Permanente.

LEADERSHIP

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, joined KHN in September 2016 after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times, where she covered a variety of beats, from health care to environment, and worked as a reporter in the Beijing bureau. While in China, she covered SARS, bird flu and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in rural areas. Rosenthal’s 2013-14 series, “Paying Till it Hurts,” won many prizes for both health reporting and its creative use of digital tools. Her book, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business And How You Can Take it Back,” published in April 2017. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School and briefly practiced medicine in a New York City emergency room before converting to journalism.

Damon Darlin, Executive Editor, has worked as a reporter and editor for a number of newspaper and magazines. He cut his teeth as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, which included stints as a foreign correspondent in Japan and Korea. He was an editor of the News You Can Use section of U.S. News & World Report and a technology magazine, Business 2.0. He created and wrote the Your Money column at The New York Times and later served as the paper’s technology editor in San Francisco before helping to start The Upshot. Although he loves the West Coast, Damon grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, graduated from the University of Chicago and remains a Midwesterner at heart.

Bill Kovach, founding chairman of Committee of Concerned Journalists, former executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution;

David Leonhardt, New York Times columnist; founding editor of The Upshot and former New York Times DC Bureau Chief;

Diana Mason, senior policy service professor and co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing;

Arlene Morgan, visiting professor in the Department of Journalism and special assistant to the dean on external affairs, Temple University; former associate dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism;

Tom Rosenstiel, executive director, American Press Institute;

Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder of the Texas Tribune;

Irving Washington, executive director, Online News Association.

EMERITUS ADVISORS

Karen Dunlap, former president and trustee of the Poynter Institute;

Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation;

Kevin Klose, professor and former dean of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and former president of National Public Radio, Inc.;

Charles Lewis, executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University;

REPUBLISH OUR STORIES & PHOTOS

All original KHN material – articles, graphics, videos and some photos – can be used for free, if you credit us and link to us. Our stories appear in The Washington Post, USA Today and in many other publications, and KHN also has a continuing partnership with NPR and public radio stations around the country.

KHN’s coverage of prescription drug development, costs and pricing is supported in part by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The foundation aims to address the nation’s most pressing challenges using evidence-based, multidisciplinary approaches; its areas of investment include information transparency.

The Blue Shield of California Foundation helps fund KHN coverage in California. The foundation, funded by the insurer Blue Shield of California, seeks to improve Californians’ access to high-quality affordable health care and to end domestic violence.

KHN’s coverage of aging and long-term care issues is supported in part by a grant from The SCAN Foundation, based in Long Beach, Calif. The SCAN Foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors that integrates medical treatment and human services with the greatest likelihood of a healthy, independent life.